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McNutt Makes Pledge While Samuel Insull, hiding in Greece from the criminal courts of Chicago, appeals for an orderly government to protect him from being kidnaped by detectives and brought back to the land he ‘pillaged for trial, in this state, which still is Insulllana, a definite pledge of freedom from his practices is given. Paul McNutt,. the candidate for Governor, pledges a control of public utilities that will prevent the extortions practiced under the guidance of the Insull lobbyists. . The candidacy of McNutt has become almost exclusive. His opponent has become the forgotten man of the Republican party. His name has been submerged in the efforts of Senator Watson to accomplish his own election and avery t definite crusade by the supporters of President Hoover to subordinate the Watson campaign to the Hoover for President clubs. It is fortunate for the voters, since they apparently have but candidate, that he has made very definite promises for reform. He made them before his election was apparently to be so unanimous. He made them openly months ago. One of these pledges is,that of rigid control of Utilities. That will mean more immediately to the ordinary citizen than a change in federal government. The utilities hffve written their own ticket in the past. They have controlled the public service commission. No member has been named to that body in recent years who did not have the approval of the Utility politicians, and that means of both parties. Candidate McNutt promises a house cleaning and then a change of laws that will abolish the holding company fences that have hidden the loot in the past. Each citizen pays more for utilities than he does for taxes. Candidate McNutt has placed his fingers on the sore spot. All Hail the Denominator Ordinary fairness calls for credit where credit is due. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us here and now to hand to Mr. Herbert Hoover the palm as the world’s champion hunter of the common denominator. After four long and arduous years, he has caged the identical denominator that he captured in 1928. And in precisely the same language he describes the quest. % The results of the catch in this great sporting event are altered considerably by affairs occurring in the interim. But the common denominator, nevertheless, a|aln is behind the bars. In his Cleveland address of last Saturday night, Mr. Hoover thus described the pursuit: ‘We must find a common denominator. ‘ "If we say that 5 per cent of butter and 95 per cent of flour form the basis of that useful mixture called ‘bread and butter,’ then the weekly earnings in each country would buy at retail in those countries the following total of this useful compound.” Whersupon Mr. Hoover, having corralled once more the fleet-footed denominator, goes on to show that if a railway engineer in October, 1932, should elect to apply his entire, weekly wage (if any) to the purchase of bread and butter, he coutyl bring home on Saturday 1,069 pounds of that “useful compound.” In the statistics of which he is so fond, Mr. Hoover shows further that a carpenter who desired to gorge himself on bread and butter could stuff the family larder with only five pounds less than could the railway engineer, thereby being still well above the half-ton mark on the same week-end. And an electrician, even better paid in Mr. Hoover’s list of wage-earners, could tote through the kitchen door 1,300 pounds of bread and butter. Obvious comparisons then are cited by Mr. Hoover to show that a railway engineer, employed in the United Kingdom,' and also desiring to go on a bread and butter bender, could display only a meager 342 pounds for his week’s toil, a German only 271 pounds, and so on down the list to the poor Japanese, who would be compelled to slink into the larder with only 131 pounds of bread and butter. Thereby, having shown by comparison that our situation is indeed a happy one when compared with the rest of the world, Mr. Hoover, in 1932, declaims: "Let no man say it could not be worse.” He then in his s'peech returns to the tariff. Now let us note the identical language of Sept. 17, 1928, when Mr. Hoover spoke at Newark, N. J. Then, as now, the hounds were baying at the heels of the common denominator. Said Mr. Hoover: "We must find a common denominator. "If we say that 5 per cent of butter and 95 per cent of flour form the basis of that useful mixture called ‘bread and butter,’ then the weekly earnings In each country would buy at retail in those countries the following total of this useful compound.” But—woe to behold. As we proceed into the forest of 1628 statistics, we learn that the railway engineer in the United States of that year with his weekly wage could buy only 717 pounds of bread and butter, or 352 whole pounds less in that time of prosperity than he could in 1932. The carpenter likewise suffers by the contrast, and so does the electrician. \ It happened that In 1928 coal miners and weavers also were included in the list, being left out this year. But then, no doubt, their purchasing power has been so much increased that they are all broke. So It is clear that, the common denominator having been captured twice, the citizen of these United States vfho hankers fbr a spree with the staff of life has registered a vast improvement during the four years of' a benign Republican administration. Long live the denominator. In Christian County Reports from the striking coal regions around Taylorville, Christian county, Illinois, should warn Americans to guard with renewed will liberties. Without even the formality of martial law, mine owners and national guard troops rule the towns as ruthlessly as a victorious army rules a captured land. The people's elected officers and police are being ordered from the streets. On Sunday, crowds gathered at the of Andy Gyenes, a picket murdered by a trooper. ’‘The United States Constitution seems there to he impaled upon the point of a bayonet. Following a strike, called a month ago in protest against mine conditions In the four mines of the Peabody Coal Company, reputed Insull subsidiary, a email street fight followed. , This “riot” was the excuse for calling In the militia. S r

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happened since is described by Leal W. Reese. TayloAllle attorney and nixnself a major In the United States reserve corps. The militia, Reese writes, has done everything to intimidate the strikers. Soldiers have ordered from Taylorvllle streets the police chief, the mayor, state’s attorney and three justices of the peace, • All meetings, including a religious revival, have been barred. Peaceful citizens have been forced into their homes by tear and smoke bombs. Fanners have been dragged from their own machines to enforce a military order that no car can have more than two occupahts. Any group of three people is called %a “mob” and dispersed. Attempts at civil justice are ignored. Here Is Cossackism in the heart of the republic. What does the commonwealth that gave us Lincoln propose to do about It? An Example for Industry A company which owns extensive iron ore properties in the upper peninsula of Michigan announced not long ago that on Nov. 1 It will call 1,200 miners back to work—not because there is any new demand for Its ore, but simply because it recognizes a duty to its employes, The name of this concern, you might be interested to know, is the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company. Its mines have been idle for a long time, it has its properties already mined, a stock of 3,250,000 tons of ore, and its shipments this year have only been 175,000 tons. • The comity could exist very nicely for some time to come without bringing another bucketful of ore out of the ground. But the miners couldn’t; and the company has accepted its responsibility in a very commendable fashion. . Its action deserves high praise, would that it might be copied by other companies all over the nation! Soviet Russia has presented Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, American engineer, with a flock of medals for directing the construction of Dnieprostroy, the world’s lorgest power plant. Now we’ll offer a medal to any one who can pronounce It. Mayor Cermak of Chicago has extended a cordial invitation to European nations, including even England, to take. part, in the 1933 century of progress exposition. Can you imagine what Big Bill Thompson Is saying? - • A British tennis player, appearing op the court in shorts, shocked some of those Americans who saw the recent national singles tournament. Not so deeply though, as some more of our Americans were shocked during the last few years by Wall Street shorts. Candidate Roosevelt is classed as a “gentleman farmer,” that is one who does not run his farm for profit. The woods have been full of those “gentleman farmers” during the last few years. Zasu Pitts testified the other day that she never attends movies, not even her own. We suppose that even a taxicab driver gets bored with his own work now and then. President Hoover announces economics correctly with a long “e,” says Christopher Morley. If this election hangs upon pronunciation, maybe Hoover will get it. Several prominent football players have been drafted to aid in the politicali campaign here and there, probably m the theory that they have a pretty good line. Now that the football season is well underway, nominations are being received for successor to the mantle worn by the Boston Red Sox. The counterfeiters who are said to be trying to dispose of an Issue of S2O bills must be super-opti-mists. Lots of people who feel sorry for the trouble President Hoover has been through are going to vote to give him four years more of it. Perhaps the vogue of red dresses merely is meant 'to match the color being used by most bookkeepers nowadays. Now is the time for all good men and true to begin wondering about their 1929 overcoats. ,

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE plight of today’s young woman is called to our attention. “I am not writing as an individual,” says this correspondent. “We are many. Young girls, in our twenties, with college education done, or halfcompleted because of lack of funds—but all of us are searching for some work or interest to claim what little knowledge and experience we have tried so seriously to gain. "No matter where we turn, the ways are blocked. We are not intellectual genii, nor radicals, but we want to add something to the greater whole, as well as prove our worth to ourselves and our communities.” Such a message makes me sad, because I realize how true and tragic it is. It pictures perfectly the dire situation confronting thousands of young women at the very flowering of their lives. What does the future hold for these girls? I wish I knew. Many of theme will miss marriage, many will miss finding their niche in business, many of them will have their whole natures warped with fear and despair before they reach maturity, because of present economic and social conditions. m m PERHAPS the only real contribution any individual can make to the community today is that of courage. And our situation takes more courage than was needed by a generation that faced a war-tom world, because they knew they had a tremendous job to do. Though their hearts were aching, they oould console themselves with work. Now multitudes have lost their sense of being needed, and this is America’s major spiritual loss, which exceeds in importance any material privation she may have suffered. Idleness is a sort of prelude to death. And so if they would survive this period unharmed, these girls must contrive to find something to do, whether they get paid for It or not. - • They must keep up their interests, even though their work be largess to an ungrateful community. This is the only way to live through the lean years. Something must be found to keep hands and brain busy. And, who knows, perhaps these very girls will make a tremendous contribution to civilization. They may, in this exigency, discover the secret of how leisure nay be enjoyed happily and intelligently,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Sav* •

There Is No Such' Thing as the Average Child ; Mass Production Is Not for Humanity. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-*-It is refreshing to hear recognized authorities on the subject denounce this "average child" delusion. Nothing has done more to mar home life and mislead education. As Dr. J. Newton Kugelmass says, there is no such being as the aver- ! age child. All this measuring. : weighing, and testing accomplishes ! liitle. except to make things easier i for those who want to find a medium that will fit the largest number. It is of great advantage for clothing manufacturers to know that the general height, weight, and measurements of 8-year-old boys, but that doesn’t prove which 8-year-old boy will wear out the seat of his pants first, or whether he prefers brown to blue. By no hook or crook can the child be robbed of that individuality with which he was born and which is his rightful heritage. Any scheme that ignores it, much less undertakes to suppress it, is false. Mass production is not for humanity, and neither is mass training, except in certain limited lines. You can take 100 children and them to read or sing in concert, but that does not mean that each of them puts tj?e same thing into it, or gets the same thing out of it. , nan Bad for Progress MODERN life makes it necessary to mobilize large numbers of people for certain specific purposes. Good as that may be in the interest of production, it is bad for human nature and human progress. The suppression of individual talent it involves means an incalculable loss. Meat and drink always have demanded a given amount of routine work. The introduction of machinery has tended to increase it. Instead of glorifying this aspect of life, however, we ought to sense its danger. Above all else, we ought not to carry the idea it iepresents into the field of education. The bulk of the work people are doing today is drab and stupefying, it leaves little room for development of individual' initiative, or individual capacity. It has been reduced to a system which most any nitwit can follow. If education serves one purpose more than another, it is to offset the obviously dulling effect of such condition. The child needs more personal attention than he ever did, to prepare him for the blighting influence of a career which, in nine out of ten cases, will rob him of all opportunity for self-expression. If he has not gained enough inspiration in his early years to sus-' tain a self-conscious personality later on, he is lost. n a Nature in Rebellion WE are not bringing children into the world to replenish the supply of carpenters, plumbers, lawyers, doctors and bond salesmen. We are not reproducing the race to be sure that our gigantic machines will have plenty of fodder. Yet such thought seems to lurk’ in the back of some of our best minds, with their clamor for vocational training and their insistence on conformity. To a palpable extent, nature is in rebellion against the type of artificial life organized industry is attempting to impose on her, not only in the factory, but in the home and the school. To a palpable extent, the theory of forcing people to conform to mechanical rules accounts for unrest among us older folks and indifferent among children. Popularity of sport in our schools and colleges is a direct challenge to the more serious side of education. Young people and children are turning to games because it gives them a chance to express* personality.

Questions and Answers

When were the first gold coins minted in the United States? 1795. When did Chopin compose his famous funeral march? In 1829. Where is Colgate university? Hamilton, N. Y. * ■* On what date did Ash Wednesday fall in 1883? Feb. 7. Is there a black rose? Florists call the “Prince Camille de Rohan” a black rose. Which precious stones are most valuable? Perfect pigeon blood rubies.

Daily Thought

Whosoever therefore shall confess before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.—St. Matthew 10:32. The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.—Carlyle.

M TODAY 40 IS THE- W ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARV

BELGIAN COAST CLEARED Oct. 18 ON Oct. 18, fi9lß, Belgian flags onoe more flew over every town on the Belgian coast. The allies occupied Zeebrugge, Blankenberghe and Thielt. British occupied Roubaix and Turcoing, captured villages to the southeast of Doual and advanced east of Le Cateau. The Germans withdrew from Loges and Bantheville forests and Bois Hadois. Americans advanced north of Romagne and took Bantheville. Emperor Charles proclaimed steps for the organization of Austria on a federalized basis. The provisional government of the new Czechoslovak natirm proclaimed its independence of Austria-Hungary and the Czechs seized Prague.

Straws Show Which Way the Wind Blows

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Asthenia Is ‘Don’t Care’ Ailment

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WORRY, shock, and prolonged nerve strain may produce weakness and depression and a feeling of inadequacy as well as can the poisons of certain infectious diseases, it now is realized. So there is a general understanding of the significance of such terms, as “neurasthenia” and “psychoasthenia” and other conditions in which the terminal phrase “asthenia” is prominent. All the conditions are essentially those in -which there is weakness and easy fatigue. In a review of this subject, Drs. E. L. Bortz and G. M. Piersol find that asthenia represents really a diminution of potential.

IT SEEMS TO ME by h ™ d

ELMER RICE, who won a Pulitzer prize and deserved it, went Communist a few days ago and promptly exhibited on Broadway the worst play which he ever has written and one which can stand as a new low, even in an all-comers’ tournament. But it can ndt be charged reasonably that the conversion of Mr. Rice to • regimented drama has spoiled his touch. Quite obviously his “Black Sheep” is nothing of recent vintage, but something from the very bottom of the barrel. It is another of those plays about the artist and how he carries on when left to himself. The theme is popular. It has attracted the attention of Sunday supplements and some of the poorer motion pictures. But I am blessed if I can understand how Elmer Rice, a serious writing man and a good one till now, can sit down to reel out all the nonsense which “Black Sheep” affords. The whole thing is in the spirit of one who might stand on the sidewalk at a first night, album in hand, asking, “Mister, could you spare an autograph?” a a a Rounding Capes, Sentences IT gives life and support, although not very much, to that ancient notion that* an author first must round the Horn and then go pretty nearly blotto on bad gin before he sets a pen to paper. # The works of Elmer Rice have been so excellent on several occasions that anybody with the slightest knowledge of the craft must sit in admiration of the hard, painstaking hours which must have gone into the formulation of such things as “Counsellor-at-Law” and “Street scene.” Yet here is a man who really understands how such things are done lending aid and comfort to the extremely cockeyed notion that writing is something which can be accomplished only after Jack or Charley has said, “Boys, we wish you would go home now; we really intend to close up for the evening.”

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The individual simply does not develop enough power to carry on, and therefore fatigues more easily and rapidly than the normal person. He lacks dynamic force. The same person may be full of vim, vigor, and vitality on one day and utterly without “go” a few weeks later. Asthenia therefore is defined as a condition in which there is insufficient development of nervous force to take care of either muscular or intellectual effort. In such condition the least movement or expenditure of energy brings on an overwhelming fatigue. Sometimes rest and sleep do not help; changes in the diet and the giving of drugs seem to be useless. The person so afflicted becomes dull. His voice drops to a point where it is almost inaudible and

I always have been extremely dubious about the familiar theory which ascribes to every brilliant author a life of sin. Os course, it might be convenient to anybody with pretentions, save for the fact that* it just won’t work. It probably is a good thing Tor the man of high talent to be tolerably free from inhibitions. With certain nice reservations, it is to hjs advantage and the advantage of the world that he should both seek and find the things in life which invigorate him. / But, for that matter, the same rule holds good even for people who are not artists, under the broadest stretch of that much-abused label. a a a Conventions of the Wicked THE flaw in the theory of looseness for art’s sake is that immorality is responsible for almost as many cheap catchwords and false traditions as virtue itself. Only very fine spirits ever have been able to sin without self-consciousness and a sense of obligation. Eighty-three per cent of all dissipation is undertaken not so much from any honest longing as from a feeling-*that it is the thing to do. The reservoirs in Central Park could be filled to overflowing with cocktails which were imbibed by persons who didn’t really want them at all, but feared that a refusal might seem a little churlish. The man who tries to make his revolt against the world simply in terms of crying out for one more round and then another will be a little troubled when he finds that he has been identified by his community as “a regular fellow.” And so if I were an artist I would not pay much attention to the theory of the development of genius by means of promenades along the primrose path. Certainly I would not walk there through any sense of duty. It does not seem to me that the artist who is avidly and consciously in search of educational experiences presents a very attractive figure.

his. eyeballs seem to sink back simply because the muscles that should sustain them are relaxed. There is jjo confusion of the mind, but a person who is asthenic may be unable to read or write or engage in conversation or follow a direct line of thought, simply because he just feels that it is not worth while. When a patient gets into such a state, he even may be completely unconcerned with serious affairs affecting other members of his family. Investigators who have • discussed this subject emphasize particularly the type of asthenia that followed the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Some of the people who had the disease at that time never have recovered their normal state.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

No matter what he says, his words must convey the thought, “Please fly with me and be my love, because I am planning anew novel, and it must be animated by fire and by passion.” I hardly should think that any woman would regard it as an endearing proposal. a a a Worse Than Digging Ditch writing is a chore, as hard and as grinding as the job of making watch crystals. I‘have known writing men and women who brought the dawn up from below the earth’s red rim by providing a convenient ladder of spent rickey glasses. The process may have eased some fierce tension in their souls. But I have known many other folk who could drink more and sit up later and who did not become artists at all. The formula which Elmer. Rice has set for his hero is a complete fake. One can be personally wet and dry as an old irrigation ditch on the printed page. I ought to know. I’ve tried it. (Convright. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Joseph Daniels, in j an address here Oct. 11, said “President Hoover is the most industrious, hard-working chief executive the j United States ever has had. Every morning before breakfast he appoints a commission; but in no re- ! corded instance does the commission ever commish!” Mr. Daniels frequently quoted the much-quoted Hooverian words, “just around the corner” to the amusement of the audience. Today I heard a Putnam county farmer express his opinion of Hoover. But I dare not repeat it. It would come under the head of unmailable matter. J. CHARLTON SMITH. Editor Times 4 Will • someone please tell me why, in the clamor for reduction of expenses of govern- j ment, if is necessary to begin with ; the schools? Are there not other ; places, not so essential as the schools, where economy could be , practiced and expenses curtailed? A great preacher has said, “The future of the race marches forward on the feet of little children,” but how can the race progress if the children are not educated properly and cared for? Do not those in authority realize that the children of today will be the officials and lawmakers of tomorrow, and that their greed and shortsightedness of the present may act as a boomerang in the future? j A teacher of first grade children said to me recently: “I greatly fear for the effect of the depression upon the minds of these children. So, when school I time comes, we go into the room and shut the door, and try to forget the depression and be happy together for a while.” At the same time, I know this teacher feels the pinch of the depression on payday, the same as the rest of us, but this is the kind of ; teacher whose salary we would cut, I

-OCT. 18, 1D32

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Princeton Experiment, Enrolling Dr. Abraham Flexner and Professor Albert Einstein, Is One of Importance. THE most interesting and perhaps the most important experiment in the history of modern education will begin in America next year. In the fall of 1933 the new institute for Advanced Study, founded by Dr. Abraham Flexner, will open its doors at Princeton, N. J., with Professor Albert Einstein of relativity fame, as head of the school of mathematics. , One needs only to consider the position of Einstein in the world of science and Flexner in the world of education to realize the importance of the Princeton experiment. This importance becomes still greater when we remember that Flexner is out of sympathy with many trends in present day university development in America. He set forth his dissatisfaction in a book published in 1930 titled “Universities. American, English and German.” The Institute for Advanced Study, of which Dr. Flexner is director, was founded in 1930 by a grant of $5,000,000 from Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld, former owners of L. Bamberger & Cos., department store indfewark, N. J. Professor Einstein has accepted life employment as professor of mathematics and theoretical physics, and will make his home at Princeton during the school year, from Oct. l to April 15. He will spend his summers in Berlin. ana His First Visit PROFESSOR EINSTrfIN made his first visit to America as a member of a party of distinguished European Zionists in 1921. Although his chief purpose on •that visit was to help gain support and financial aid for the rebuilding of Palestine, he managed to visit a number of scientific institutions during the visit. For example, he spent a day with Dr. Dayton C. Miller of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, examining , the apparatus of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, with which the foundations Qf the Einstein theory were laid in Cleveland in 1887. For it was in that year that Dr. Edward W. Morley and Dr. Albert A. Michelson performed their historic experiment to attempt to measure the motion of the earth through the ether of space. Einstein returned to America during the closing days of 1920. This time his mission was entirely scientific. He had been invited to serve as “foreign visiting professor” at the California Institute of Technology. The institute is located in Pasadena. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famous physicist and Nobel prize winner, is chairman of its executive committee. Asa result of his policy, many famous European scientists had come to Pasadena in previous years to hold similar posts. Behind Pasadena stands a towering mountain range, whose peaks include Mt. Wilson, site of the world’s greatest observatory. At Mt. Wilson, Einstein found astronomers who had verified portions of the theory of relativity, Dr. St. John and Dr. Walter S. Adams, for example. He found others collecting data on which extensions of the theory would be based. At “Cal Tech” he found mathematicians and physicists capable of riding with him through the most intricate paths'of the relativity theory. a a a Relativity Clinic AT the close of 1931, Einstein returned to Pasadena for a second “relativity clinic.” Dr. William de Sitter, famous Dutch astronomer and authority upon relativity, also made the trip to America and both Einstein and De Sitter joined the discussion in Pasadena. The expanding universe was the chief topic of conversation at the “clinic” and Einstein and De Sitter issued a joint manifesto in which they said they were not so certain as they formerly had been that the universe was expanding. (Recently, Sir Arthur Eddington, another great authority on Relativity, has announced that he is more certain than ever that the universe is expanding.) At the time of Einstein’s last visit, rumors began to be heard that Einstein was going to make his home in America. It generally was assumed, however, that he would stay in Pasadena. Princeton is to be congratulated both on getting Einstein and on getting Flexner. One may feel certain that in signing up Einstein, Dr. Flexner has made the beginning of assembling a distinguished staff for his new institute. And, of course, Princeton university has a distinguished faculty, including a number of brilliant mathematicians who “talk” the mathematical language of Einstein. Dr. Flexner for many years was secretary of the General education board of the Rockefeller Foundation. His brother, Dr. Simon Flexner, is director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research in New York. As secretary of the Rockefeller board. Dr. Flexner has played a role of tremendous importance in American education, particularly in development of medical education in the United States. On the assumption that the reader would like to know more about Dr. Flexner, I will write about his life tomorrow.

whose efforts we would curtail through lack of money to carry on the work. I only wish that those clamoring the loudest that the school budget be reduced would visit some of our schools and observe these consecrated teachers working with the children, and catch the spirit of the boys and girls themselves, as they go about their work of making themselves useful citizens of tomorrow. Perhaps those in authority have forgotten the words of the Great Teacher, who said: Whosoever shall cause one of these little ones to stumble, it is more profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.” A FRIEND OF THE SCHOOLS.